Manufacture of tufted work



N.PETERS. FHOTaLITHoGRAPHR, WASHINGTON, D, C.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

E. KELLERMANN, OF MOOSOP, CONNECTICUT.

MANUFACTURE or TUFTED WORK.

Specification of Letters Patent No. 27,133, dated February 14, 1860.

lowing is a full, clear, and exact description of the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawing, forming a part of this specification, in which- Figure 1 represents an elevation of one of the iron plates which I use for producing,

my work. Fig. 2 is a transverse vertical section of a series of these plates when lled with wool. Fig. 3 is a similar section of one of the same after it has been cut 0E from the rest, and the ends of the Wool are fastened together. Fig. 4 is a vertical longitudinal section of a specimen of my work. Fig. 5 is a plan or top View of the same. Fig. 6 is a vertical central section of a button or acorn covered according to my inven* tion. Fig. 7 is a plan or top view of a piece of work produced by my method. Fig. 8 is a perspective view of a practical application of my invention.

Similar letters in all the figures refer to corresponding parts.

The operation to make tufted work by hand, and without any other aid but the worsted pattern, is very tedious. Even balls and other smaller articles usually produced in this line of work, if the same have to be made up by hand or in the usual man-A ner, take up a great amount of time and labor, for each single thread has to be brought to the proper position for each piece oi.' work, and it has heretofore not been possible to produce more than one such article from the same pattern at one and the same operation. With my method, on the other hand, it is very easy even for such as are not skilled in the art of embroidering to produce all sorts of tufted work, and at the same time a large number of pieces can be produced from the same worsted pattern at one and the same time.

My invention is an improvement upon the device patented in England by Wm. Pid- T?) enable those skilled in the art to fully understand and use my invention I will proceed to describe it.

A represents the iron plates through which the threads are pulled. Each of the plates contains a number of openings, a,

cut out in such a manner that when the plates are placed one on the top of the other, as shown in Fig. 2, the openings in the several plates register exactly one with the other, and that the thread passes through the openings in all the plates with the same ease as it does through one of them. For small work no pattern is needed. The different colored threads are arranged according to fancy, and if the openings in all the plates are filled up tight, one after the other of the plates is severed from the rest by cut ting down between the plates with a knife, and the protruding ends of the threads are fastened together by glue or some other suitable cohesive substance, as shown in Fig. 3. After the glue is dry the contents of each hole are pushed out and pads, B, are formed, as shown in Figs. 4 and 5. A number of such pads may now be arranged on a piece of cloth, C, as shown in Fig. 7. Those pads may also be used to cover small wooden forms, such as balls, acorns, or buttons, as shown in Fig. 6. Larger pieces of work, such as pictures of animals, or landscapes, may also be produced by the same means with the aid of worsted patterns, and in this case the openings in the iron plates, A, have to be arranged so as to correspond to the picture.

It will be easily understood from the above description how a'large number of such pictures may be produced by one and the same operation, and the whole work can be done by persons entirely unacquainted with the art of embrodering.

The following is a description of the practical operation shown in Fig. 8. A in said figure is the bottom on which any number o molds (plates) B, B, (with the figures C, C, to be made in) are placed. The molds are kept in the required position by means of the 1ronrods D, which are removed after they are filled. E, E, are uprights, fastened in the bottom to bear the shaft F, with the crank G. To the shaft F, the rope H, is fastened and to this the wire-ro the loop K, to receive the threa s L, to be lfpred through the molds. M, is the cutting Operation (see Fig. 8) The threads to be Worked in the molds are dressed in a common dressing frame in the same manner, as common warps. They are passed through the loo) H, of the wire-rope I, and the crank is set in motion. When the figures I, withY C, C, are filled, the iron-rod D, is removed and the Whole set of molds is cut by tWo and tWo or byA pairs andv cemented on each side. When dry, these are cut apart. The plates A, when arranged, combined and opcement on both sides of the two molds keeps the particles/of threads from moving. When cut the figures are pulled out and the molds filled again. Any required length of pile can be made by application of these molds.

When long pile is Wanted four orv more molds are cut off together.

What I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, s:-

The employment of a series of metallic 15 erating, in the production of tufted Work, as herein shown and described.

EMIL KELLERMANN.

Witnesses:

W. HAUFF, J. F.l BUGKLEY. 

